Thread: Kindle e-Book piracy accelerates - from CNET
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Old 02-22-2011, 08:47 AM   #55
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Originally Posted by Namekuseijin View Post
Yeah, it's not "theft" because the author is not deprived from his work, since infringers only make a copy. But that single copy provides countless other copies, which in turn deprives the author from income, since that same work which cost him quite a few months or years in the making was made available for free in about 1 minute upload by some burger-flipper.
How does it deprive the author of income?
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